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New York City Mayor Eric Adams was accused in a lawsuit Monday of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993 and demanding a sexual favor in exchange for his help advancing her career in the police department.The lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan, offered the first public details of a sexual assault claim brought against the mayor in November. Adams, a Democrat, has vehemently denied the allegations and said he does not remember ever meeting the woman. A sexual assault “absolutely did not happen,” the mayor told reporters last fall.According to the suit, the woman was seeking a promotion in the city’s Transit Police Department when she sought help from Adams, then a police officer and high-ranking member of the Guardians Association, a fraternal organization that advocates for Black members of law enforcement.The lawsuit says that he offered to drive her home from work and then drove to a vacant lot, where he offered to help her, but said he “also needed some help.” She said that while while sitting in the parked car, Adams demanded oral sex.After she refused, she said he exposed himself and masturbated, according to the lawsuit. Adams then said he had to get back to work, and dropped her at a Manhattan subway station, according to the suit.“Adams preyed on her perceived vulnerability, demanding a quid pro quo sexual favor,” the suit states, “revealing himself not to be the ‘Guardian’ he purported to be, but a predator.”A spokesperson for Adams provided a statement attributed to the city’s corporation counsel, Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, which described the allegations as “ludicrous.”“While we review the complaint, the mayor fully denies these outrageous allegations and the events described here,” the statement read. “We expect full vindication in court.”The case was brought under the Adult Survivors Act, a New York law that extended the time limit to bring sexual assault lawsuits. The woman first entered her claim this past November, just ahead of the law’s expiration, but did not provide any details about the alleged assault at the time.“I don’t recall ever meeting this person and I would never harm anyone in that magnitude,” Adams said last fall. “It did not happen, and that is not who I am and that is not who I’ve ever been in my professional life and, you know, it’s just something that never took place.”The woman did not file a formal report at the time, but told “numerous people” over the years, including current and former NYPD officials, friends, and her daughters, according to the lawsuit.A spokesperson for the NYPD, which also was named in the lawsuit, did not respond to an emailed request for comment.The Associated Press does not typically identify alleged victims of sexual assault in stories unless they consent to being named. Her attorney, Megan Goddard, asked that the AP not publish her name.Goddard said her client expects to face significant personal challenges as a result of the lawsuit, but “she believes sexual abusers must be held to account, no matter who they are.”The case adds to growing legal trouble for Adams, who is currently facing a federal campaign fundraising investigation that prompted FBI agents to seize his phones and raid the home of his top fundraiser in November.Earlier this month, FBI agents raided two properties owned by another Adams fundraiser, who also served as one of his top advisors.

WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday agreed to send a team of Israeli officials to Washington to discuss with Biden administration officials a prospective Rafah operation, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.“We’ve arrived at a point where each side has been making clear to the other its perspective,” Sullivan said.The White House has been skeptical of Netanyahu’s plan to carry out an operation in the southern city of Rafah, where about 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are sheltering, as Israel looks to eliminate Hamas following Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack. The agreement to hold talks about Rafah came as Biden and Netanyahu spoke on Monday, their first interaction in more than a month, as the divide has grown between allies over the food crisis in Gaza and Israel’s conduct during the war, according to the White House.Sullivan added that Biden questioned the Israeli leader over a lack of a “coherent and sustainable strategy’ to defeat Hamas.The call comes after Republicans in Washington and Israeli officials were quick to express outrage after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sharply criticizedNetanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and called for Israel to hold new elections. They accused the Democratic leader of breaking the unwritten rule against interfering in a close ally’s electoral politics. Biden hasn’t endorsed Schumer’s call for election but said he thought he gave a “good speech” that reflected the concerns of many Americans. Netanyahu raised concerns about the calls by Schumer for new elections, Sullivan said.Biden administration officials have warned that they would not support an operation in Rafah without the Israelis presenting a credible plan to ensure the safety of innocent Palestinian civilians.Israel has yet to present such a plan, according to White House officials.Netanyahu in a statement after the call made no direct mention of the tension.“We discussed the latest developments in the war, including Israel’s commitment to achieving all of the war’s goals: Eliminating Hamas, freeing all of our hostages and ensuring that Gaza never (again) constitutes a threat to Israel — while providing the necessary humanitarian aid that will assist in achieving these goals,” Netanyahu said.The Biden-Netanyahu call also comes as the United Nations food agency on Monday issued more dire warnings about the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.The World Food Program warned that “famine is imminent” in northern Gaza, where 70% of the remaining population is experiencing catastrophic hunger, and that a further escalation of the war could push around half of Gaza’s population to the brink of starvation.Sullivan called the report “alarming.”Netanyahu lashed out against the American criticism on Sunday, describing calls for a new election as “wholly inappropriate.”Netanyahu told Fox News Channel that Israel never would have called for a new U.S. election after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and he denounced Schumer’s comments as inappropriate.“We’re not a banana republic,” he said. “The people of Israel will choose when they will have elections, and who they’ll elect, and it’s not something that will be foisted on us.”Biden after his State of the Union address earlier this month was caught on a hot mic telling a Democratic ally that he has told Netanyahu they would have a “come to Jesus” meeting over the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. His frustration with Netanyahu’s prosecution of the war was also on display in a recent MSNBC interview, in which he asserted Netanyahu was “hurting Israel.”“He has a right to defend Israel, a right to continue to pursue Hamas,” Biden said of Netanyahu in the MSNBC interview. “But he must, he must, he must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken. He’s hurting … in my view, he’s hurting Israel more than helping Israel.”The president announced during his State of the Union address that the U.S. military would help establish a temporary pier aimed at boosting the amount of aid getting into the territory. The U.S. military has also been air-dropping aid into Gaza.The Biden administration resorted to the unusual workarounds after months of appealing to Israel, a top recipient of military aid, to step up access and protection for trucks bearing humanitarian goods for Gaza.The five-month war was triggered after Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel in a surprise attack, rampaging through communities, killing some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and taking around 250 hostages.Israel responded with one of the deadliest and most destructive military campaigns in recent history. The war has killed over 31,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Around 80% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have fled their homes, and a quarter of the population faces starvation.

OSSIPEE, N.H. — A New Hampshire man appeared in court Monday on charges that he killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child by means of multiple blunt force injuries, the first time the state has charged someone with murder in the death of a fetus. William Kelly, 28, appeared in Carroll County Superior Court in Ossipee with his lawyer, Caroline Smith. He did not address the judge. Smith said she planned to file paperwork that Kelly was waiving his arraignment and pleading not guilty. An email seeking comment was left for Smith. Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Mitchell Weinberg determined that Christine Falzone, 33, was about 35 to 37 weeks pregnant at the time of her death in December. The Legislature passed a bill in 2017 that defines a fetus at 20 weeks of development and beyond as a person for purposes of criminal prosecution of murder. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed the bill into law. It took effect in 2018. Kelly’s case is the first time the state had charged someone with murder in the death of a fetus, said Michael Garrity, a spokesperson for the attorney general’s office.Kelly was indicted by a Carroll County grand jury on Friday on two counts of second-degree murder. He recklessly caused the deaths of Falzone and her fetus, according to the indictment. Lawyers said they were waiting on forensic test results. They agreed to schedule a hearing in June and a potential trial date in 2025. Kelly, who was being held without bail, has several criminal convictions. The most recent was for assault in 2019, police said. Kelly initially was arrested in December on a single second-degree murder charge connected to Falzone’s death. Police said they found Falzone unconscious and not breathing at the Ossipee home she shared with Kelly. It was not immediately known if Kelly was the father of the unborn child.

MEXICO CITY — A state police officer and her two bodyguards were killed in a highway attack in Mexico’s violent western state of Michoacan, security officials said Monday.Michoacan’s state security agency said on X, formerly Twitter, that three members of the state Civil Guard had died in the line of duty Sunday night. One of them, Cristal García Hurtado, was a regional police commander. Local press reported that she had been decapitated.The attack occurred on the highway connecting the towns of Patzcuaro and Uruapan.The Michoacan state prosecutor’s office, which is investigating, did not immediately comment.Michoacan has been particularly hard hit by gang turf wars, with the Jalisco New Generation cartel fighting a local gang, the Viagras, for control. Thousands of residents have been displaced as organized crime experiments with drone attacks and improvised explosive devices.In February, two hopefuls to be mayor of the town of Maravatío were killed within hours of each other.____Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https://apnews.com/hub/latin-america

Newly released video shows missing college student Riley Strain briefly speak with a police officer on the night he vanished in Nashville, Tennessee.Officer Reginald Young came across Strain, 22, while responding to a car burglary on Gay Street, south of the Woodland Street Bridge, on the night of March 8, according to Nashville police.Around 9:50 p.m., Strain walked by alone. The officer asked how he was doing, and Strain responded, “I’m good, how are you?””No video has been discovered that shows Riley away from Gay St after the 9:52 p.m. timeframe,” police said Monday.Strain disappeared on the night of March 8 after drinking in Nashville’s Broadway area, according to police. The University of Missouri senior was visiting Nashville with his Delta Chi fraternity brothers for their formal, his family said.In two undated photos provided by the Metro Nashville Police Department, Riley Strain, 22, is shown.@MNPDNashville/XPolice earlier released video showing Strain at 9:47 p.m., crossing the street with a group and checking his phone. He then stopped and changed directions for a moment before proceeding down the street behind the group.Surveillance video from 9:46 p.m. showed Strain walking alone as he stumbled down a street. An additional angle showed Strain running and falling down.Strain’s friends last saw him that night when he was kicked out of country star Luke Bryan’s bar, called Luke’s 32 Bridge, one of the friends told police.On Sunday, police said Strain’s bank card was found on the embankment between Gay Street and the Cumberland River, near Riverfront Park.There’s no evidence of foul play, according to authorities.The search is ongoing. Police said they’ve been searching the area by foot, by drone and by boat, including using boats with sonar equipment.

After former President Donald Trump warned, as he talked about the auto industry, that the country would face a broader “bloodbath” if he’s not elected in November — spurring countless headlines and criticism from rival Joe Biden — Trump on Monday pushed back on the pushback and turned his defense of his comments into a fundraising appeal.Posting on his social media platform, Trump claimed that his “bloodbath” warning was “simply” about the potential challenges for auto workers if he’s not back in the White House to impose tariffs on China.Trump’s campaign is also capitalizing on the controversy, with a fundraising email sent on Monday insisting that his political opponents and others had “viciously” misquoted him as part of a broader effort to “keep control.””[T]hey fully understood that I was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry,” Trump wrote on social media, in part.Biden often touts his economic record, including the consistently low unemployment rate.Creating some friction with union members, however, the administration also wants car companies to shift to make many more electric vehicles as part of a broader push to address climate change — a position that Trump argues will harm workers in America.Here is what Trump said about a “bloodbath” on Saturday:While appearing outside Dayton, Ohio, at an event in support of Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, Trump initially said that China is trying to undercut the American auto industry by manufacturing cars in Mexico.”They think that they’re going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border. Let me tell you something to China. If you’re listening President Xi [Jinping], and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal: Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re gonna get that, you’re gonna not hire Americans and you’re gonna sell the cars to us — no.”We’re gonna put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not gonna be able to sell those guys, if I get elected!” Trump said.He then suggested there would be bigger issues if he isn’t returned to the White House by voters.”Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna to be the least of it — it’s gonna be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it,” he said.”But they’re not gonna sell those cars, they’re building massive factories,” Trump continued, returning to talking about auto manufacturing.Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Dayton International Airport on March 16, 2024 in Vandalia, Ohio.Scott Olson/Getty ImagesOver the course of his roughly 90-minute remarks on Saturday, Trump segued back and forth, sometimes abruptly, between many different subjects and indicated that he wasn’t using a teleprompter because of the wind.President Biden’s campaign soon seized on the “bloodbath” comments, highlighting how Trump has often praised authoritarian leaders and starts many of his rallies by saluting the American flag while “Justice for All” by the “J6 Prison Choir” plays.”This is who Donald Trump is,” Biden spokesperson James Singer said in a statement on Saturday night.”He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge,” Singer said.Biden echoed that in a post on Sunday from his personal account on X, writing that despite Trump’s defense, “It’s clear this guy wants another January 6.”Trump aides took on the criticism directly, too.Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung posted on X: “Media wants to talk about ‘bloodbath.’ Fine, let’s talk about it.”Cheung then went on to slam Biden for “the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal,” high rates of illegal immigration and “making America less safe with a feckless foreign policy,” among other issues.At Saturday’s rally, Trump repeatedly attacked Biden, whom he is set to face again in the 2024 general election, while highlighting his record while he was in office.He also criticized Biden for the high rate of migrants now trying to cross the southern border — some of whom, Trump said, are “animals” and “not people” — and said Biden had failed as a leader on the world stage.ABC News’ Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Libby Cathey and Fritz Farrow contributed to this report.

WASHINGTON — Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93. Stafford, a retired Air Force three-star general, took part in four space missions. Before Apollo 10, he flew on two Gemini flights, including the first rendezvous of two U.S. capsules in orbit. He died in a hospital near his Space Coast Florida home, said Max Ary, director of the Stafford Air

HOUSTON — A 1-year-old girl died after being hit by an Uber driver who had just dropped her family at their apartment complex in Houston and apparently didn’t see her in front of his car as he pulled away, authorities said.Harris County Sheriff’s officials said the girl’s family members then pulled the driver from his vehicle and assaulted him Sunday.“It’s just an unfortunate tragedy at this point,” said sheriff’s office Lt. K. Benoit.The driver thought his path was clear after dropping the girl and her family off, but as he drove forward he hit the girl and dragged her for a bit, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.Surveillance video shows the girl walking alone in front of the car just before she was hit.“We as parents, relatives, custodians of children, we have to just be a lot more alert, hold their hands, guide them to a safe place and then watch the driver pull away,” Benoit said.Gonzalez said the driver was taken to a hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.No charges have been filed and the case remains under investigation, authorities said.

LONDON — London police said Monday they have arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder after two people were wounded with crossbow bolts in two separate attacks in the capital. A manhunt was launched after a 44-year-old woman was hit in the head with a crossbow bolt in a residential part of Shoreditch, east London, on March 4. In a separate incident on March 14, a 20-year-old man was wounded in the neck by the same weapon in the same area. The Metropolitan Police said their injuries were not life-threatening. The force said a 47-year-old man was arrested late Sunday in Shoreditch, and that officers searching his home found a crossbow, knives and other weapons. Detective Chief Superintendent James Conway said the arrest was “a significant development” but he added that the investigation was complex and ongoing. The suspect is in custody at an east London police station. Britain’s government is considering tightening regulations on crossbows so that they are restricted like firearms. Currently anyone over 18 can legally buy a crossbow, but carrying it in public without a reasonable excuse could be punishable by up to four years in prison.

SAN FRANCISCO — Three people were killed and an infant was hospitalized in critical condition after an SUV crashed into a bus shelter in San Francisco, authorities said Sunday. Two victims, including a child, died at the scene of the crash Saturday afternoon in the city’s West Portal neighborhood, police said. Three others were taken to hospitals. The third victim, a woman, later died at a hospital, police said. The infant was being treated for life-threatening injuries, police said. The driver of the white Mercedes SUV was among those hospitalized, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said Saturday it was investigating the cause of the crash in collaboration with the San Francisco Police Department.San Francisco Mayor London Breed said on X, formerly Twitter, that she had visited the scene of the collision on Saturday. She called the incident “heartbreaking.”Residents left flowers at a growing memorial where the crash occurred, the Chronicle reported. The advocacy group Walk San Francisco planned a vigil Monday evening at the site.